Wednesday, January 31, 2007

[Typepad] [Firefox] Bits of my blog not responding

I'm currently going through a redesign of my blog and have found that when I look at my site in Firefox the top third of the blog, including the top two google ads, the top few links in the post and everything above the odeo & itunes buttons are dead.

However, if I look at the same thing in Internet Explorer or Safari I have no such problem.

Could anyone tell me what the problem might be please. I am testing this all out before launching on my main site so you can find the problem I'm referring to here at Silverbrow on Food - New Logo. I think it must have something to do with my CSS or HTML but for the life of me can't figure it out.

5 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Anthony,

I looked at your site in Internet Explorer, Firefox (1.5.0.9), and Opera. I haven't a clue why the links are dead in Firefox. I did notice some other weirdness though. In I.E, and Opera, the links worked fine. And in the top left corner of your banner image (which is gorgeous, by the way) are the underlined grey words New Logo, in a fairly large font. Those words don't show up when the site's loaded in Firefox.

I copied the source in each browser, and saved it as silverbrow_ie.html, silverbrow_opera.html, etc... The code in Opera and IE was 503 lines. The code in Firefox was 521 lines. I did notice that the source as copied from firefox had some difference in the spacing between the lines, and it may be that it adds enough spaces throughout that that accounts for the difference. But still, if it's arbitrarily adding a line between two others, it's hard to say what else it might be adding that's interfering with your links.

Sorry I can't be of more help. It's been a LONG time since I did any HTML, CSS work. Just thought I 'd mention what I saw. Maybe it'll help you track down the issue.

Basically the #banner-header element is "absolute" positioned in the top left corner, with height and width 100%, and it's overlapping all the content underneath it, which is stopping you from being able to click it. I'd modify or remove that element from your style sheet and it will stop the problem.

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